Kameron Hurley on the conspiracy of silence about NSB that let to the current situation

[james_davis_nicoll]

Everything authors knew about the rotten abuse at Night Shade was shared in private. With a few exceptions (Moon and Williams, most notably) no one was talking out loud about what was happening. The SFWA was accomodating and gracious and gave them chance after chance. We should have spoken up. All of us.

But we didn’t. Because these guys were “nice guys” we knew, not “big megacorp unknown entity.”

Comments

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Testify. I'm a lot farther from the music scene now than I was during that time, but yeah, the parallels are alarmingly similar and I did rather think of that. It also rather reminded me of the stories around Wizards of the Coast in those halcyon days when they were getting more money than God (from Magic, one presumes) and Peter Adkison and other boffins at the top were learning what it meant to be responsible employers and owners-of-businesses...

[seawasp]

Difference being that WotC survived, and they even paid people when they left the RPG industry. (I know, I was one of those that they gave severance pay to, so to speak).

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Yep -- that's certainly true.